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Developing a diagnosis-based severity classification system for use in emergency medical services for children

Evaline A AlessandriniDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, James M Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence and Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children s Hospital and Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USAAcad Emerg Med 19:70-8. 2012

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A new diagnosis grouping system for child emergency department visits

Evaline A AlessandriniDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Emergency Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USAAcad Emerg Med 17:204-13. 2010

..The second objective was to assess the construct validity of the DGS by examining variation in the frequency of targeted groups of diagnoses within the concepts of season, age, sex, and hospital type...

..The authors undertook this study with the goals of enumerating and categorizing existing performance measures relevant to pediatric emergency care...

Effects of an education and training intervention on caregiver knowledge of nonurgent pediatric complaints and on child health services utilization

Evan S FieldstonDepartment of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, USAPediatr Emerg Care 29:331-6. 2013

..The objective of this study was to test the impact of an education and training intervention about management of common childhood illnesses on caregiver knowledge and health service use by an index child...

Unscheduled revisits to a pediatric emergency department: risk factors for children with fever or infection-related complaints

..We performed this study to examine the association between characteristics easily obtainable during an emergency department (ED) visit and URV to identify a subpopulation of children who may warrant interventions to decrease URV...

Shared decision making and behavioral impairment: a national study among children with special health care needs

..Diagnosis information from existing data sources is used commonly for epidemiologic, administrative, and research purposes. The quality of such data for emergency department (ED) visits is unknown...

A qualitative assessment of reasons for nonurgent visits to the emergency department: parent and health professional opinions

Evan S FieldstonDepartment of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USAPediatr Emerg Care 28:220-5. 2012

..The objectives of this study were to elicit and to describe guardians' and health professionals' opinions on reasons for nonurgent pediatric ED visits...

A system for grouping presenting complaints: the pediatric emergency reason for visit clusters

..To develop and validate a multivariable model, using information available at the time of patient triage, to predict the level of care provided to pediatric emergency patients for use as a severity of illness measure...

Placement changes and emergency department visits in the first year of foster care

David M RubinDivision of General Pediatrics, Pediatric Generalist Research Group, Safe Place Center for Child Protection and Health, Philadelphia, PA, USAPediatrics 114:e354-60. 2004

..The secondary aim was to compare ED visit rates with rates of visits to other ambulatory care settings among children in foster care and other Medicaid-eligible children not in foster care...

Return visits to a pediatric emergency department

Evaline A AlessandriniDivision of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USAPediatr Emerg Care 20:166-71. 2004

..To determine the incidence of return visits (RVs), types of RVs, and factors associated with RVs to a pediatric emergency department (ED)...

Women of child-bearing age have better inhospital cardiac arrest survival outcomes than do equal-aged men

Alexis A TopjianDepartment of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USACrit Care Med 38:1254-60. 2010

..Our objective was to determine whether women of child-bearing age are more likely than men to survive to hospital discharge after in-hospital cardiac arrest...